THE DELTA KING’S BLUES | World Premiere

Music by Damien Geter
Libretto by Jarrod Lee

December 6, 7 (matinee), 12, 13, 14 (matinee), 2025
340 Maple Dr. Washington, DC

December 19, 20, 21 (matinee), 2025
2640 Space Baltimore, MD

Link to Tickets for Dec. 12th

The first full opera commissioned by IN Series, this World Premiere of THE DELTA KING’S BLUES marks the culmination of a multi-year project to celebrate the legacy of legendary guitarist Robert Johnson with a “blues opera” that tells the Faustian story of the bargain he struck with the devil – selling his immortal soul to learn the language of the blues, America’s original music. An orchestra mix of blues and classical musicians joins a cast of leading artists from around the country and an immersive juke-joint experience that sings, dances, hollers, laughs, and mourns in a brilliant new score by Damien Geter and texts for Jarrod Lee. – IN Series / art by David Plunkert